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How to live, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps…How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps…
How to live, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts fail.How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts faile.
printed by John Legat, 1601printed by Iohn Legat, 1601
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The third use followeth: in that we are to live by our faith, we are taught to seek for knowledge of the will and word of God, & daily to increase in the same knowledge; specially to acquaint our ⟨p. 83⟩selves with the commandments of God that concern us, with his promises, and threatenings. For faith is the life of our souls, & the word is the life of faith: because it is first kindled and afterward confirmed by the hearing of Gods word. Again the word moderates our faith, that we believe not more then we should, or come short in believing. The word therefore that serves thus to limit our faith, must be known in his several heads and points.
The third vse followeth: in that we are to liue by our faith, we are taught to seeke for knowledge of the wil and word of God, & daily to increase in the same knowledg; specially to acquaint our ⟨p. 83⟩selues with the commaundements of God that concerne vs, with his promises, and threatnings. For faith is the life of our soules, & the word is the life of faith: because it is first kindled and afterward confirmed by the hearing of Gods word. Again the word moderates our faith, that we beleeue not more then we should, or come short in beleeuing. The word therefore that serues thus to limit our faith, must be knowne in his seuerall heads and points.
Fourthly, hence we learn how we are to carry our selves in greatest dangers, as in the time of plague & pestilence, in the time of famine, in the time of war & bloodshed, in the time of our last and deadly sickness. We have then ⟨p. 84⟩need of great help: and the only way is then to stay our selves and establish our hearts by our faith on Gods promises. It is the very scope of this text to teach this one point of doctrine to the Jews, being now oppressed by the Babylonians. David in danger, and Christ in the time of his passion, by their faith commend their spirits into the hands of God. Of the martyrs and Saints of God,